Trial reportAddictive behaviors2017
The social exigencies of the gateway progression to the use of illicit drugs from adolescence into adulthood.
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- Longitudinal links from attachment with mothers and fathers to adolescent substance use: Internalizing and externalizing pathways.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Associations between Social Relationships and Alcohol Use from Adolescence into Young Adulthood: The Role of Religiousness.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Drug use talk in adolescent friendship interactions: Long-term effects of social learning on lifetime diagnosed substance use disorders.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2022Article
- The prospective association between illicit drug use and nonprescription opioid use among vulnerable adolescents.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants as a "Red Flag" for Other Substance Use.Substance use & misuse · 2021Article
- Valuation of peers' safe choices is associated with substance-naïveté in adolescents.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Observational
- Neurobiology, Clinical Presentation, and Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder: A Review.JAMA psychiatry · 2020Review
- Prevalence of drug use, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking and measure of socioeconomic-related inequalities of drug use among Iranian people: findings from a national survey.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Toxic Nightlife Relationships, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health: Is There a Link? A Qualitative Case Study of Two Patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Brains of a feather flocking together? Peer and individual neurobehavioral risks for substance use across adolescence.Development and psychopathology · 2019Article
- Assessing the longitudinal stability of latent classes of substance use among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is limited empirical integration between peer clustering theory and the Gateway framework. The goal of the present study was to test the hypothesis that friendship associations partly predict gateway escalations in the use of drugs from adolescence to adulthood.
methodThis longitudinal study analyzed 3 waves of data from a community sample of 711 male and female participants without a history of illicit drug use reporting drug use at age 17, 22, and 27. Substance use assessments including tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, onset and abuse/dependence tendency of illicit drugs other than cannabis (i.e., cocaine, methamphetamine, and opiates), and friends' reported use of illicit drugs. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized model.
resultsParticipants' cannabis use level at age 17 was positively associated with perceived friends' drug use at age 22, which in turn predicted participants' onset of illicit drug use between ages 22 and 27. Moreover, progression of tobacco use throughout age 17 to 22 was associated with an increased onset of illicit drug use between ages 22 and 27. Apart for an effect of cannabis use at age 22 on abuse and dependence tendency to various drugs at age 28, results were similar.
conclusionsDuring this period of development, the availability and selection of drug-using friends contributes to the progression to potentially more rewarding and damaging illicit drugs. These findings suggest the need to attend to the peer ecology in prevention and support the common practice of using abstaining peers in treatment for drug dependence.
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